GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Olga Palagia, who specializes in classical archaeology, will lecture at the University of Florida on “New Perspectives on Macedonian Painting,” at 5 p.m. Feb. 27, at the Fine Arts Building B, room 105. The event is free and open to the public.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Wine enthusiasts can once again raise their glasses in support of North Central Florida’s public radio stations at “A Celebration of Wine,” the 17th annual benefit wine tasting and auction to be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the University of Florida’s Reitz Student Union Ballroom.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida will hold its 55th annual conference Thursday through Saturday. The theme of the conference is "Alternative Visions of Development: Rural Social Movements in Latin America."

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — David Allison, an expert on obesity and director of the Clinical Nutrition Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will be the featured speaker Feb. 22 for the 2006 York Distinguished Lecturer Series at the University of Florida.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The UF MOD Project dancers will perform at the Harn Museum of Art at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The contemporary dance repertory ensemble from the University of Florida’s School of Theatre and Dance fuses dance, physical theater, art and technology.

WHAT: The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida’s philanthropic affiliate, will present a $50,000 grant to the UF Speech and Hearing Clinic to provide speech-language services to uninsured adult clients in Alachua and surrounding counties.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – An exhibition of highlights from the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries' Caribbean archival and library materials will open Feb. 24 at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida in Miami.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -– Continuing the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the genesis of the Grateful Dead, Dark Star Orchestra presents its critically acclaimed live performance at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Despite progress in other fields, women represent less than 10 percent of the engineering workforce, and a new book aimed at increasing their numbers pays homage to four University of Florida faculty members.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The spate of devastating hurricanes should not deter Florida’s population growth, which is expected to increase steadily over the next quarter century with the fastest growth occurring in metropolitan fringe areas, a new University of Florida study finds.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Museum of Natural History Curator of Archaeology Jerald T. Milanich will share stories and antics from his newly released book from 2 to 3 p.m. Feb. 19 as part of the Florida Museum’s Science Sunday lecture series. Following the lecture, Milanich will offer a book signing. Books are available for purchase in the Florida Museum’s Collectors Shop.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida physicist has been elected as the leader of the largest active high energy experiment in the world. Jacobo Konigsberg will head the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) collaboration for the next two years.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Welcome to the bug-of-the-month club. Thanks to Florida’s balmy climate and popularity as a tourist destination, at least one new and unwanted insect pest hitchhikes its way into the state every month, according to University of Florida researchers.

LAKE CITY, Fla. — When Civil War buffs commemorate the struggle between North and South at the Battle of Olustee re-enactment this weekend, a University of Florida expert will be on hand to demonstrate how Rebs and Yanks faced a common foe – insects.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Carol Browner, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, are among more than 50 experts to headline the nation’s first conference combining humanities, law, policy, children and the environment.

The Inter-Residence Hall Association (IRHA) at the University of Florida has a lot more to be recognized for than just a few programs on campus. After winning the Student Award for Leadership Training (S.A.L.T.) regionally on Nov. 5, IRHA once again proved to be the best candidate, winning the national award on Jan. 18 as well.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Children living in the South are up to three times more likely to battle poor health and its consequences — including obesity, teen pregnancy and death — than those in all other regions of the United States, even if they receive the same medical care, a new University of Florida study reveals.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Assertive and even aggressive human behavior could explain why shark attacks worldwide dipped last year, continuing a five-year downward trend in close encounters with the oceanic predators, new University of Florida research suggests.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida engineer is the latest researcher to design a tiny, easy-to-manufacture motion sensor, a development that could help popularize the sensors as standard equipment in personal electronics, medical devices and other applications.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida senior Justin Bangs has been selected as one of 40 Gates Cambridge Scholars from the United States to study for a master’s degree of philosophy, also known as an M. Phil degree, in Environment, Society and Development in the department of geography at the University of Cambridge on a full scholarship. An Orlando native, Bangs is majoring in political science and history with a minor in women’s studies at UF.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Harn Museum of Art has launched an innovative outreach program for senior citizens called Art for Life. The program gives Alachua County seniors unable to visit the Harn an opportunity to benefit from the museum's offerings through educational activities and visuals brought to their location.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History will release live butterflies into its Butterfly Rainforest exhibit at 2 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting, beginning Saturday, Feb. 11.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Susan Langdon, who specializes in early Greek pottery, sculpture and iconography, will lecture at the University of Florida on “It Takes a Polis: The Art of Adolescence in Early Greece,” at 8 p.m. Feb. 7, at the Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History will offer the "Amazing Adaptations" exploration series this spring where K-5 students can visit exhibits, make crafts and stretch their imaginations in hands-on classes.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — How did personally identifiable consumer information about millions of Americans become a product corporations can buy and sell? What are companies doing to prevent information about their customers from being stolen by hackers? What laws should governments pass to require businesses to protect you from identity theft?

HAGUE, Fla. — As the nation looks to agriculture for renewable fuels from crops and other sources, University of Florida researchers have developed a manure management system that produces energy, saves valuable nutrients for fertilizer, cuts greenhouse gas emissions and stops offensive odors.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dedee DeLongpré, the former executive director of Sustainable Alachua County, has been named the new director of the University of Florida’s Office of Sustainability, Ed Poppell, vice president for finance and administration, announced today.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Much as the famed starship Enterprise would deploy a deflector shield to evade enemy attack, tumor cells are capable of switching on a molecular force field of their own to fend off treatments aimed at killing them. Now University of Florida researchers have found a chink in their armor.

A study by finance professor Jay Ritter was cited in a Feb. 15 story in the Wall Street Journal (circ. 1.1 million) about how initial public stock offerings rarely surprise chief financial officers. The Journal is a paid subscription so no link is available.

Jeff Wade, director of the environmental division of the University of Florida Center for Governmental Responsibility was quoted in a Feb. 20 Tampa Tribune (circ. 313,693) story about new development in hurricane-prone areas.

Research by criminologist Alex Piquero showing that youngsters who hit puberty earlier than their peers may have a higher risk of later being victimized was the subject of a Feb. 6 story on the Reuters news service. The story was the result of a news release.

PBS’ airing of “Negroes with Guns,” a documentary produced by Sandra Dickson and Churchill L. Roberts, co-directors of the UF Documentary Institute, was the subject of a Feb. 7 story in the New York Times (circ. 1.1 million) A similar story ran Feb. 3 on the Associated Press national wire.

PBS’ airing of “Negroes with Guns,” a documentary produced by Sandra Dickson and Churchill L. Roberts, co-directors of the UF Documentary Institute, was the subject of a Feb. 7 story in the New York Times (circ. 1.1 million) A similar story ran Feb. 3 on the Associated Press national wire.

An opinion piece by President Bernie Machen on UF’s efforts to create a center to study emerging pathogens ran Feb. 26 in the Miami Herald, the Tallahassee Democrat and the Gainesville Sun. The piece was placed by UF’s Op-Ed Service.

Sometimes the line separating idiom from idiocy is a thin one. Such is the case with Jeb Bush’s latest accusations that Common Cause has been squirreling away its donors in its laudable effort to reform Florida’s unfairly gerrymandered legislative and congressional districts.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Students can learn more about internships and available jobs by attending the College of Health and Human Performance’s First Annual Sports Business Career Forum at the Florida Gym from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday.